The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) has a plan to allow companies to collect information about how people are using their products while protecting the privacy of those generating the data.
Today, the California-based non-profit, which operates Let's Encrypt, introduced Prio Services, a way to gather online product metrics without compromising the personal information of product users.
"Applications such as web browsers, mobile applications, and websites generate metrics," said Josh Aas, founder and executive director of ISRG, and Tim Geoghegan, site reliability engineer, in an announcement. "Normally they would just send all of the metrics back to the application developer, but with Prio, applications split the metrics into two anonymized and encrypted shares and upload each share to different processors that do not share data with each other."
Normally they would just send all of the metrics back to the application developer, but ..
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